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60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it (programming.dev)

submitted 6 days ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] nik9000@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

I think lots of the kernel folks are paid to contribute full time. For a while I was paid a full time maintainer on some apache licensed search stuff. Before that web stuff.

I guess the demoninator in that fraction is low.